ENDPOINT SECURITY
Yoggie Gatekeeper Pro
REVIEWED BY PETER GIANNACOPOULOS
Yoggie
Price: $220
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Michael S. Mimoso, Editorial Director|
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Yoggie Gatekeeper Pro is an interesting new take on the perennial problem of using personal firewalls to secure individual PCs. It is a Linux-based USB device that serves as a full-blown firewall, VPN gateway and integrated antivirus/Web filter gateway. All of this capability is packed into a form factor that is approximately the size of a pager.
We tested the standalone version to look at the core capabilities of this unique product, but an enterprise version is available that provides centralized management, policy control and reporting.
| Policy Control | B |
These features are excellent capabilities bundled into the basic product, but we would have liked more fine-grained control.
| Effectiveness | A |
We enabled Web filtering and attempted to hit some dubious Web sites. We were denied access, and all the attempts were logged. Gatekeeper Pro's antivirus likewise caught the EICAR test suite--as expected--as well as the sample viruses we had in the lab. Gatekeeper Pro worked as advertised.
| Configuration/Management | B+ |
Configuring the device is accomplished through a built-in Web GUI that will immediately look familiar to anyone who has set up any type of home networking equipment from D-Link or Linksys.
Though effective, the Web GUI is somewhat Spartan. For example, the user is allowed to choose from low, medium or high security levels, but there is no clear explanation of the specific differences between the levels, either in the online help or in the product documentation. We set the security level to high and were able to perform common tasks such as instant messaging, Web browsing and email without any difficulties.
| Verdict |
Testing methodology: We installed Yoggie on a Windows XP SP2 test machine. We used the EICAR test suite, along with samples of known viruses, to validate the antivirus capabilities, and used Nmap to verify open and closed ports on the host.
This was first published in May 2007